Thursday, June 4, 2009

Last weekend, I went downtown with some friends to celebrate a friend's birthday. I snapped these pictures out the window of the cab on the way to the restaurant.

Does this name sound familiar? Name the sitcom.

This sign was on the door inside the bathroom at the train station. It cracked me up. Just what exactly do stolen purses do to make one beware of them?

This is why you should always listen to your waiter when he explains the special. You should ask questions if you don't understand. Don't just assume that the "seafood special" contains little bits of lobster and shrimp and clams amid some pasta with a light sauce. Sometimes the "seafood special" actually means "ocean on a plate". This picture was actually taken after I'd finished eating. There were even more dead sea creatures on my plate to begin with. Half a lobster, clams, mussels, calamari, shrimp, chunks of some sort of icky fish...

I found myself feeling sorry for this lobster. I mean he was cut in half. I think the rest of his little lobster body was over on my friend, Julie's plate. And he was covered in sauce. I mean, COVERED! There was no way I was going to try to crack that thing open or I'd have flung sauce all over myself and probably at least the 5 or 6 people sitting closest to me because I'm just classy like that. Next time, I'm ordering the gnocchi.

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Vanessa said...1 year...OMG...that would be a LIFESAVER!!!!! My kids eat it EVERY DAY...seriously. They like it the old fashioned way...just like the box directions. I even sneak a few bites here and there...talk about comfort food! :)Vanessa

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Three's Company!!! Please tell me you didn't get that mess of seafood from the Italian Village! I would be so disappointed if you did! It looks like you might have been eating outside though, so it couldn't be Italian Village....whew.

The sitcom was Three's Company. Your ocean on a plate reminded me of a seafood salad a friend of mine got in Miami. Expecting a salad with shrimp or crabmeat, we were horrified when her salad arrived with an octopus arranged prettily on top of it with squid and some other seafood that we couldn't identify mixed in with the salad greens.

I can't believe no one's responded yet to the Regal Beagle question - that was on Three's Company. They used to head down there and meet Larry or whoever. Every once in a while, the Ropers would show up. Yes, I have a ton of useless trivia stored up - glad I could share some of that with you.

LOVE downtown Chicago -- I went with my sister who lives in NW Indiana. We walked past the big red steel sculpture and I asked her what it was. She said, "a big red steel sculpture." So that's what it will always be in my mind.

I know I am spoiled living in New England, but it always makes me giggle to see what people call a Lobster in other areas. We would call that a "throw back" up here.. hee hee. It all looked good though!

It pains my heart to see that lobster (or any seafood) covered with red sauce! I would have brought the poor fella home and given him a bath...right before smashing him up with my lobster crackers and making a lobster roll. :)

I have a question, is there a way to get your blog posts sent in their entirety to email anymore? I have dial-up and it takes an eternity for your actual blog to load so I liked getting it in plain text in my email, but now it just has the first paragraph or so and then says "click here to go to my blog and read the rest."

You mean I could have run into you last weekend during (yes, coming from the Detroit area) only my second trip to Chicago in my life?!? I saw the Reagle Beagle sign...Lavern & Shirley?...so we might have been in the same place at the same time! Love your Blog!!!